Antirattler for windows



D. B. GEDDES.

ANTIRATTLER FOR WINDOWS.

APPLICATION FILED Dec. 3. 1920.

1,385,208, Patented July 19, 1921.

Inventor- V Damel I3 Geddes,

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UNITED STATES DANIEL B. GEDiDES, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 19, 1921.

Application filed December 8, 1920. Serial No. 427,991.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I DANIEL B. GEDDEs, a citizen of the United tates of America, and a resident of Newark, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antirattlers for Windows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an anti-rattler for windows or doors to keep them from being shaken by the wind, the anti-rattler being ada ted to be inserted between the sash and ead or between two sashes to prevent rattling. A further object is to provlde a device which is efficient, inexpensive, which can be readil used, and which will not mar the win ow sash or frame.

In the accompanyin sheet of drawings which forms a part of t is application,

Figure 1 is a perspective of an anti-rattler which embodies this invention.

Fig. 2 shows its application toa window.

Fig. 3 is an edge view.

Fig. 4 shows the blank of sheet metal from which the anti-rattler is formed.

The anti-rattler comprises an upper leaf spring 5 and a lower leaf spring 6, t e length of each of which is preferably greater than the width. The upper spring is preferably slightly shorter than the lower spring and overlies the lower spring so that its forward margin as well as its ends will be back of the forward margin and ends of the lower spring. The two springs are bowed so that they will bear together at their ends and will be normally separated in between. A branch 7 leads transversely from the middle of each spring, and one of these branches overlies the other and are joined together most conveniently by reason of their being the two ends of a strip of sheet metal which is folded over into a loop. The springs are also referably joined to the branches or loop b emg of one iece of sheet metal therewit and all formed from a single stamping.

A length of chain 8 has one end engaged in thebend of the 100 and serves to connect the antl-rattler with a hook in the window frame so that it will not be lost when not in use.

For insertion between the bead and window frame the branches are pinched together in the fingers and this flattens the two leaf springs against each other so that they can be inserted and as the lower spring projects beyond the upper spring the edges of the upper spring are kept from scratching the window frame. The loop is bent out of the plane of the springs when flattened together so that it will be spaced awa from the window frame and convenient to handle.

I claim,

1. An anti-rattler for windows comprising two bowed leaf springs which bear to gether at their ends and each of which has a transverse branch from its middle, the two branches being connected to hold the springs together, substantiallj as described.

2. An anti-rattler for windows comprising two bowed leaf springs which bear together at their ends, and a loop each of the ends of which connects with the middle of one of the leaf springs to hold the springs together, substantially as described.

3. An anti-rattler for windows comprising two bowed leaf springs which bear together at their ends, the upper spring being smaller than the lower spring, and a loop each of the ends of which connects with the middle of one of the leaf springs to hold the springs together, substantiall; as described.

DA IEL B. GEDDES. 

